Weekend tech troubles
Today I started doing some major cleaning on TechButter. I decided that I would go through the site and delete some old posts that I didn’t feel were in line with the mission of the site. If they didn’t have a lot of substance or if they only contained a brief paragraph and a link they got deleted. I want to use TechButter as part of my portfolio to show potential employers what I’m capable of doing. One thing that I realized today is that I truly need to get to work on doing more tutorials. I’ve got one that I’ve had private since March! Before I post it I want to record a video tutorial to go along with it. I’ve also got plenty of other ideas for video tutorials, too. I’m working through a huge to-do list for the site and I think it will be a lot better once I’m finished. There were 53 pages of posts but now there are only 8! It’s easier to get to the good articles now. Less is always more! Anyways, let’s get on with the main point of writing this entry.
I would have had a video journal entry up had I not had problems with technology this weekend. Friday afternoon I sat down and recorded for 12 minutes which is all I can record for on one 1GB memory stick at the highest resolution. I decided I wasn’t done so I put my old memory stick in (mistake). I got finished and went to pull the video off of the second memory card (since it was still in the camera) and there was a format error. The only way to make the camera work again was to format the card. I tried to recover the files and all I got was a video file that only contained garbled audio. I’ve always had problems with that memory card. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn’t. That’s why I bought a new one and I guess it looks as though I’m going to have to get yet another one to replace that one. At least they’re cheap. I do wish that my camera could take something larger than 1GB since they do make 4GB memory sticks! Annoying. Oh well. On with the story.
Saturday I was house sitting for my sister and I decided that I would re-record the video journal entry. I sat down and started recording. I talked and talked for a good 15-20 minutes (I changed it to a lower resolution, if you’re wondering). I thought it was one of the best recordings I had ever made. Guess what. I wasn’t actually recording. I sat in front of the camera for approximately 20 minutes talking to myself. Embarrassing. During the recording I said that if something went wrong with it I would just write a blog entry, so that’s what I’m doing now. I’ve got to go do some things around the house. I’m going to try to come back later and write a couple more entries pertaining to the topics I talked about in the video.
Tags: memory stick, recording, technology, video
May 12th, 2008 at 2:59 am
I bought a Memory Stick off of eBay that died after about six months. I think it was counterfeit, though. I just resold it on eBay to some guy in the Netherlands. I makred on the auction that it didn’t work, though. So if it’s unrecoverable, the guy knew he was getting into.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Shawno - I have been wondering if the Memory Stick Pro Duo that I got last year (the one I talk about that I have always had problems with) is counterfeit. I’ve had problems with it since day one and have always wondered about it. It came in a sealed package. May have just been a bad one. I hate throwing the things out but I’d hate to have to send a bad one to plague someone else’s life with! LOL.